Fringed Bleeding Heart
Dicentra eximia
Unlike the spring-ephemeral bleeding hearts, this Appalachian native keeps its blue-green ferny mound all season and repeats its dangling pink hearts from spring to frost. Ant-dispersed seed lets it drift gently through a shade bed. Deer and rabbits leave it alone.
- Family
- Papaveraceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–1.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- white, pink, purple
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, hummingbirds
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing
- Native states
- GA, MA, MD, NC, NJ, PA, SC, TN, VA, WV
Related native plants
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- Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
- Pacific Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa)
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